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One Of Greatest Political Meetings In Local History At Lions Garden RACE TICKET INCLUDES CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR Between five and six hundred citizens, one hundred and twenty of whom were accredited delegates, assembled at Lyon's Garden Wednesday night in the first convention of the Lincoln Independent party. The meeting was called to order by Rev. J. B. Colbert, acting as temporary chairman. Prayer was offered by the Rev. Watson of the Christian church after which the roll of delegates was called by Mrs. Nola King temporary secretary. A motion was next in order and Rev. Colbert, prominent churchman and citizen, a consistent fighter for the independence of the Negro in local politics, was elected permanent chairman and Mrs. Nolan King of the best known women in Louisville and Kentucky, a leader among women in politics and all that means for the good of the race and community was elected permanent chairman. Rev. Colbert was introduced in well chosen words by Mr. A. L. Garvin, well known insurance man and the opening gun in the convention was fired. Rev. Colbert brought the delegates to t heir feet in his very first utterances: "We have gathered here tonight in an independent movement which is destined to liberate millions of colored fellow citizens from the throttling of political slavery." He was applauded throughout his speech which follows:
Ladies, Gentlemen, Members and Friends of the Lincoln Independent Party, Fellow Citizens:
We have gathered here tonight to launch an i ndependent movement, which is destined to liberate millions of colored fellow-citizens from the thralling of political slavery.
Why an Independent Political Party.
First because it is the constitutionall right of all free American citizens to organize and support any party which they believe comes nearest their ideal of citizenship rights. The fundamental principles of the Lincoln Independent Party are in perfect harmony with the principles that actuated the founders of our Commonwealth, that precipitated the revolutionary war. They believed then, as we believe now that "Taxation without representation is tyranny."
Whenever any political party grows so arrogant and autocratic as to totally disregard the wishes of forty thousand (40,000) American citizens as the local Republican Mahine has done in the case of the citizens of Louisville when they rejected a member of our race in the Tenth Ward, who is in every respect prepared to represent us and foisted upon us a white man totally unknown to nine-tenths of the citizens whom he is supposed to represent, simply because he happens to have a white skin, which is an insult to every self-respecting Negro in the city of Louisville and the State of Kentucky and we propose to resent it in a most emphatic way on the day of the election by electing men of our race to represent us, who alone can do so in the spirit of justice and fair play. We cease from now on to allow ourselves to be the cat's paw for the Republican Machine in Louisville or any other political machine. By our slavish worship of the Log Cabin, the Republican party has grown bold to believe that we are nothing more than political slaves--to [sit?] and come at their command and [vote?] the straight Republican ticket regardless of whom the ticket is composed. In fact it is not our business to inquire or look for the names of the candidates but simply to look for the Log Cabin and stamp under that and ask no questions. This condition has placed us in very unenviable attitude, to the extent, we are awned by the Republican party and hated by the Democratic party simply because we have blindly opposed the Democratic party at every point. The very name "Democrat" has consciously or unconsciously fallen into disrepute with the average colored person on account of the faults and erroneous teachings of the professional politicians of the Republican party. We rejoice in the manifest change in the minds of the more intelligent colored people. They are recognizing their friends, not by the reflection of lifeless emblems but by the warm pulsating hearts of living personalities regardless of race, creed or religion.
We regard the organization of the Independent Lincoln party as the greatest step taken by the colored people in Louisville for political freedom since their emancipation. In fact it is nothing more or less than our second Emancipation, one that is destined to make us free indeed, for it will give us the power of autonomy, which is the right of all free men. The Lincoln Independent Party will enable us to say frankly to both dominant parties that, whichever party that will give us justice will be the party that will get our support and none other need apply. it matters not what may be the emblem or traditional training. We are living in the present, pregnant with the most hopeful signs of a larger freedom and a fuller life and not in the dead past of its reactionary tendencies and [antiquated?] ideas.
The Bible tells us "without a vision, people perish." What we need today more than anything else as a race is a leadership of a larger vision, a leadership of conviction and the courage to assert those convictions. There is a growing sign of an awakening consciousness among the colored people to demand a large share of their constitutional rights and an absolute equality of opportunity in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. We will not rest until these are fully realized and enjoyed by every member of the race.
The Lincoln Independent party is but the beginning of a nation wide movement. Now is the psychalogical moment for the colored people to rise in the majesty of their political rights and break the shackles of the political slavery which has bound them for the past fifty years and demand that the men, who are to be our political leaders, shall not be professional crapshooters, gamblers and boot-leggers, but men of character and intelligence--be they white or colored.
The Independent Party will compel whatever party is in power to recognize the independent black vote and in a way that they have never been recognized before. Through the Independent Party the colored people will be the beneficiaries, it matters not what party wins the election. We will have more respect and consideration from both the dominant parties after November 8, 1921.
From tonight, God helping us, we cease to be the private property of any political party but will contend for every right guaranteed to us under the constitution. We are intelligent enough to know our rights, and have courage enough to demand them.
Some of the Things for Which the Independent Lincoln Party Stands.
1. Absolute equality of opportunity in the race of life.
2. Racial representation at the forum, where the laws are made that tax our property.
3. Our proportionate share in the emoluments of official preferment.
4. No intimidation or duress in the full exercise of our [suffrage?] rights.
5. We owe absolute allegiance to neither of the dominant political varties.
6. We believe it is through independent voting that the Negro will ultimately receive his full and complete redemption.
7. We can be [neither?] bought nor bluffed.
Dr. Charles Summer Williams Speaks.
The appointing of the platform nominating committees followed the speech of the chairman after which Dr. Charles Summer Williams of Indianapolis, noted scholar, orater, preacher and race man, pastor of the great Bethel A. M. E. Church and a favored candidate for Bishop at the next general conference, was introduced and delivered an address that will long be remembered by those who sat under his eloquent voice. He lauded the independent movement and paid a glowing tribute to the leaders and appealed to all to stick by those who had the vision, the intelligence and the courage to launch the Independent Party, the only medium thru which the Negro would ever amount to more than a tool, a servant and a slave, politically. He informed his hearers that the eyes of the nation were on Kentucky and Virginia, that the independent movement in Louisville was the dawn of the new day, the spirit of the new Negro that got his inspiration out of the world war as he fought against autocracy along side of the millions of Negroes of the English and French and for the democracy of the Anglo Saxons of the world. He wants life, liberty, equal justice and the pursuit of happiness and will have nothing else, said the speaker. He bitterly assailed lily white republicans, local and national, was vigorous in his criticism of President Harding and denounced viciously the "Uncle Tom" Negro, the slave, or the son of a slave type, the Negro that would vote a Republican ticket if it had a yellow dog on it, the Negro that was always ready to turn traitor to his race at the request of "boss" George.
He said the Negro leader of the "Rubber Stamp" type should have been dead fifty years ago. Dr. Williams grew eloquent as he appealed to the members of the Independent party to stick together, that though they would be criticised by that type who could see the good in no movement that does not meet the approval of their bosses, in due time the whole race in Louisville would commend the effort and would pay tribute to their vision and courage. "You are setting the pace for the race throughout America and New York, Chicago, Indianapolis and every place I have been on my speaking tour they are discussing you and singing praises unto you. Stand up men, and women of independence and self respect. You are building a monument pushing a cause that means for the making of a race, a spirit that permeats the souls of unborn children and grandchildren of your race." Dr. Williams took his seat amid prolonged applause.
Nominee Committee Reports: The Ticket.
The report of the Nomination Committee was read by Mr. I. Willis Cole and the following men and women compose the Lincoln Independent Ticket:
For County Officers.
Sheriff....William N. Prather
Co. Court Clerk....Dr. Horace Morris
Cir. Court Clerk....T. H. Graham
Jailer....Scott Turner
Coroner....J. O. Catalan Co
County Atty.....M. M. Willis
County Judge....A. L. Garvin
For Officers From City at Large.
Mayor....A. D. Porter
Auditor....E. H. Courtney
Tax Receiver....Mrs. Lillie Simmons
Park Comm's'rs.....Mrs. Nola C. King
....Mrs. Etta Graham
....Wayman Sherrill
Aldermen....Lindsay Garrison
....Dr. Wilson Ballard,
W. E. Lewis,
Abraham Simpson
Dr. M. A. Blackburn,
M. H. Montgomery,
W. F. Gurley,
I. B. Taylor.
Leonard Haley.
For Representatives:
57th Leg. Dis.....Rev. J. B. Colbert
58th Leg. Dis.....Wilson S. Lovett
56th Leg. Dis.....W. W. Wilson
54th Leg. Dis.....James H. Hathaway
For Senator....I Willis Cole
7th Magisterial District:
Justice of Peace....William Warley
The Party Platform.
The report of the Platform Committee was ready by Mr. William Warley which follows:
To the Citizens in General and the Colored People in Particular:
The Lincoln Independent party is an organization looking to the emancipation of the race from political slavery.
Its origin was caused and inspired by the respected efforts of the local Republican machine to frustrate every effort made by members of the race to try for elective offices. The local Republicans through themselves placed in office by virtue of the colored vote, have absolutely refused to appoint colored men or women to positions of trust or honor or even to ordinarily conspicuous places except those menial in character and not satisfied with this have oppressed by fair means and foul all efforts made by the Race to elect our own people to office even to represent us in districts almost wholly colored.
Now this is very important. Nothing would go farther toward raising our people in the respect of other groups of the population, nothing would go further toward dispelling racial animosities, doubts and suspicions than the contact of other race groups with members of our race groups in the capacity of public servants and officials, both a ppointive and [elective?].
If the Republican party was our friend, if it were not and ingrate and was at all appreciative of our continued loyayyity it would voluntarily see to it that these things were done.
But the truth of the matter is the Republican party of today is not the Republican party of twenty-five years ago.
The original Republican party was founded in 1854, being a union of the Free Soilers, who were against slavery, and the Whigs and the Anti-Federalists. In 1856 it presented to the country a ticket headed by John C. Fremont, who was defeated. But the anti-slavery spirit had grown so strong that in 1860 the Republican party was successful in electing Abraham Lincoln president.
His election was the signal for the secession of the Southern States, and Mr. Lincoln, while peronally opposed to slavery was more concerned with saving the Union. And it is a matter of fact that Mr. Lincoln meant to save the Union at any cost--whether, as he said in a letter to Horace Greely, it meant freeing some of the slaves, all of the slaves, or none of the slaves. And the much praised Emancipation Proclamation was so dated as to be merely a threat that unless the rebellious states laid down their arms the slaves would be freed. So the Republican Party was given the credit of freeing the slaves.
The situation that followed the war was handled very unwisely, as we see it now. So much so that the freed man and the former master were put at dagger's pints with each other despite the fact they had to live in the South together. Subsequently great men like Charles Summer were developed in the Republican party--men who tried to make the Republican patyr become the friend of the lowly, the protector of despised humanity. But this nobe spirit gradually subsided until in the administration of William Taft it had entirely died. Under Theodore Roosevelt it flared up and for awhile appeared to burn again under Roosevelt's declaration of, "All men up and no man down." Then came Taft with his weak-kneed proposition that he would appoint no colored man to office when white people object. That marked the death of the original Republican party. The unholy ambitious Frank Hitchcock, chairman of the National Republican Committee, to break the solid South at the expense of the Negro beg an to peremate the whole party until it had no more use for the Negro than to get his vote. After eight years of Woodrow Wilson, the election of Warren G. Harding, as Republican Pres- (Continued on Page 5.)
W. Overton Harris And Mrs. Castleman Speak Before Thousands On Race Issue MAKES TIMELY ATTACK ON REPUBLICANS The speeches of Mr. Overton Harris, Democratic candidate for Mayor, and Mrs. Margaret Weissinger Castleman before the thousands of white people, at the opening of the Democratic campaign at the Auditorium Tuesday night, in which the Colored people and their votes were given much attention, are regarded by Colored people throughout the city, Independents, Republicans and Democrats alike, as the most forceful, logical and open minded expressions ever uttered from the lips of white candidates before white audiences by any candidates and campaign speakers in local history. Never has any party candidate gone out of his or her way to say so much for the sole benefit of our group. Never has there been such a corroboration of the independent thinking leaders of the race. Never has so much been said that should make the Negro man and woman reflect and take a second thought for his political and general welfare in a community where he must need have the friendship and co-operation of a ll peoples regardless of creed or politics. Never has so much been said that should make mothers and fathers think if they are doing all they might do politically for the future advancement of their sons and daughters. Never have mem- of the things for the making, for the power and influence of another group, thoughts expressed that should have been the opinion, the expression, the policy of Negro leaders fifty years ago. The speeches of Mr. Harris and Mrs. Castleman speak for themselves and are reprinted here:
What Mr. Harris Said.
"Let us now consider the so-called race question, which would never be a problem, except for the exploitation of the Negro by the Republican party.
When the Negro vote is spoken of the Republican party always get excited and resentful, feelnig that it is an intrusion upon their private property. The accuse the Democrats of raising the race issue when they, themselves, have made it impossible not to discuss or recognize and discuss a state of fact.
The self-respecting, law-abiding colored people, who [work?] for their living are entitled to the [illegible] protection in their rights to life, liberty and property. They are entitled to the same protection that white people are entitled to, and should have equal right to access to the Mayor or any other party officers when they have public business to transact. It is not that kind of colored man who has trouble with white people, but te vicious and criminal element of the colored race which is a menace to this community, and must be rigidly controlled. This is true, not because they are colored but because they are vicious and criminal. Unfortunately for the colored race of this city it is through the ignorant and vicious element of Negroes that the Republican party has obtained such a hold upon the race that they vote almost as one man under the Log Cabin, without knowing or caring what candidate or principle is involved.
The Republican organization in this city was elected by the Negro vote because the 29,000 colored voters wield the balance of power. The Republicans are afraid to recognize the colored people after election in any way except by encouraging the vicious and criminal, with gambling and liquor concessions. This arrangement whereby 29,000 colored people elected the Republican ticket and are rewarded by having their criminal class encouraged and protected, is a menace to this community. Any race or body of people who vote blindly for such a reward would be equally sinister.
Mrs. Castleman's Remarks.
"The only way to get things in this country is to get them on the inside of the political party." Now this is eminently important in the case of the Democratic women. It has been shown that at the last election 83 out of every 100 colored women registered, whereas only 60 out of every 100 white women did so. Now, I hold no brief tonight against a colored woman's right to the suffrage which shall not be abridged by color or sex; but I am amazed and indignant that the white women should not show at least as much appreciation of their enfranchisement as the colored women. I like the colored people. We have had colored peopel closely associated with our family life for years. We had one cook forty-five years. God rest her soul! And I don't believe anybody knows the colored man as does a Southerner, and that usually means a Democrat.
I hold that the Democrats are really the best friends of the colored people, and it looks very much as though colored people of the better class in this city are beginning to realize the truth of this.
RATIC SPEAKERS MAKE STRONG PL FOR .RACE INDEPENDENCE IN POLITICS
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der d HH·. Culbl:n. ilronula 1 'I bfeate:-t tcp lh.eu Ly the col01CJ t·le onh- mean of tb l"e:-lor.ltion oi t The complete :::.tte.ment Iollo\t: f' \·('ry communih- 2.nd counln· whero from thp lip of white C3ndidlte I"le- a1!"(I. Tl " fit"''-·} f' . elf lr. Harn::;: am;
cbu.rehmUh anti citizen. a con:-i:-tel.t I {:tlpl(:: in Louh.\·ille for political free· a free iro'·emment. in Yirginia. Hp. "Xe\"'!r ,,a:, there. a more ilThLanta- thE" lGan ha al('a(h· e5=tabli;-;hE"d : fore white aud·t'nc(t L\· 3n,· (:lOI) )lr:-. C tLl·mal p ak fnr t '·m . d"!·
fighter for the independence of tLe uom since their n lllcipation. Ib I ded:lreJ that the esential i-u s 0' I cenu.; :lnd .generous re.-ponse to :lny footho d :In, I to p"U;t out the dnnl!('r date, an.I C:lmpaign ,p;"'kr in Inc,l a.,,] are reprintro here:
l\eJ!TO in Ivcal p')litk W3:-: electt inct it is nothing m(,e or le::- u:.a.J the campaign are not pulitic'l but thut 3 of se.nce an IY.o a h:e of the cecrct order .by p:t 'otic de h!story_ - ' f'V"'- ha:- 3n:-- rarty candi- \\ hal )tr. lIarn Said.
pE:n:nanenl ;:,irman and l r. Xolar OUT econd Emancipation, one that IS the real qu-tion i.:- one of the mal_- gl\.en to Jrune, p- 0.0,.:, 1 ".33. Tllut mont:ration. Comlty. T"3ther tha" date Jr(,ne out (l.f hi I)r her way til • Lel u, 114'\\ c\ lI!'oJllcr H.c O-C.lllcu
K.ing o! t ht? be:--t klltlWh women. I G.tined to make u.s free inde6!'i, f(\ agement 'Jif 3yahs ju \"irgillja. JI;: I re:,ponse has been not on y msnta- nmit-. bftweeon rnct"!'. reli$riou.;; $.3y ,0 mach (or thE:' sole bene-fit of I":,"e ({Uf:'. t.·)11 WI1'(: 1 '\UI.II(I n ,." •
Loui,,;lle and Kectucky. :I lea. de. I i \\iIl give us the power. of autonom.r. asserted th:lt monns can not be hop- n.eou: and g",:,.ero.u; , bQ enthu''''''tc group', :lnd politiC:ll parti(" will b£ our up. \'eJ: ha. the b-en "problem, except 10.· Ule ejJlolwtion
among women in Iolill 'and all lho.t V'hich is the right of all free men. ed for Irom the Democrats :lnd th"t I and elo !ue' t In e.'l.pre.;'ons of gmtl- " ocourat(ed. .uch :I :o,:",bnratto of h" ,".Jep('. 0" the :\egro by the I. publican parh.
means for the goo! of the rce I The Lincoln Independent party will the "politirnl macltine" permits no in-I tude a praie. It make' me :U:'- . Formel' G"etnor ?unne, in accet. dnt thInk,":! INulpr, or th rac;,; Illwn tilt _ ''''lfr" \·ot" IS .pokeu i
emmunity w:! eleeted perman ,I el :lble u.s to .ay fr:llkly to both dO-1 depend('oce and no ueviation from It. der "hat OUI pre. "Quld do e lDj! the ch,"rmansh.p. branded tr.(' - e\"er h:l. - "lur I'n a.d tlu. the HepuLllcan pan I",,» I,'(!t eJ­chairm:
m Re'·. Colbert was lntT ,- inant p.arties- t.hl, ,\hlc.hever Jriln) oroers and no one can be elected lo ::oe leal hero to appe:r:md ,,-0 :-om:!- Klan 3 a ''men:lce to this 3nti 30Y houlrl ma.ke the ('gTO ma.n a .1 Wol- cited and re-.entJuJ. .i.ec,ni th3t. it IS
duced. in wen cho::-e.n word by lir. A that wI:l give u; jUlice 'will be th t c.ulce on the Democratic ticket e.xcep: I thing reall:' great. . ! '. 3\e before. m community,·' in their a.d'lption of the man Et-ft"('t. d fakp a o('c.lI1d thouehl all intru.:-iou upon lheir ·p,·ate prop.
L. Gan;". well known insurance m " party that will get uur _upport UI,I!".th the support oI the m:lc:hine." !":rhap t"em) editoru1$. from oUl "equipmentoftheburglar-m:l5kS :lno or hIS pOhll1 and J!:eneral welfa", crty. The a:cu.", the Democrats ot
and the opening gun in the convent\" n none other need apply. it matter.; Jlot Col. Anderson s:lid the barring Of' pre, that ".ould do crctht to an) implement. of violence." Col. F. A. 10 a community where he mu. nee'l =wg the ra:e Issue when they,
was find. Rev. Colbert brought thE' wh:!t may be the emblem or u-adi- egro.:, from the Republican tate press on this globe. They go .to my Deruson. formerly colonel of the 8£b Ihemlves, ha"e made it impossile.
=so ,: .: i:e:i' : :n:,;nt\t:::tio: vetton oa:k :ra thn : ; tucr :!,::; ItW: :e: bc::: pppointed :I mem- :, t :tcto;f :,!r ;::. uut to tti5C"--- or recognhe ®d
tonigJIt in an independent mo\-eme\l' ful sign,; of :I larger freedoln and :\ t ta :lnd thaI it remo",. the race an c:annot put for"" lIlto his blow. I group in the cap:lcity of public , '" cc". a tate of [act.
1I'hich i d""tined to liberate millions fuller life :lnd not in the de:ld Pbt quetion from politics or political ag .a a. r ;ghteous and h lan cause wbel I(mged app."use. \'ants and official" both a ppo.nu\e The sel[-respectll1g, ':'jI!i._:f.:ltUi;.ti'o. -:!::' 14',J-c,\'"r r ' . , - e._ "0 ted man ' oOllo"'" C'ruml!lN' R,' " i-'£ ,. land .£t e. ,;olore,);!d.pe.oepl!te'itM·" rtiPl!fIirir-.-=
g of political sla,e"" He l ti'qated ide"; , • , tllb; :'e ·";pleted· their fu l; gratef1 e.yes :"" tUlned upon him, I Tid el: . . the Repu ucan IJ'U wa, ou tection ' the . h to rr libe
'IllS applauded throughout hIE .pee.Jl 'Foe Bible tell, L_ "\\ithout a yj!joa. Sl ti et. :luthorizing Jo;eph P01- w.he,:o man hopes are fixed upon The leport ol the omm:lt.on Con.· \:nt ifali :';;"::ti":tl ':' C.':,I lnd p":;;"rt)." )s are neUtled n ,
which follo . s: I people perish." \\hat we oeeJ toda,)' lard, \\ 0 ran ag-.1inst tate .Senato. hixo .\, "" for myoelC and my plan3. :t":'h;\·%I1:":.1n bYrr:' l; r'lliwo unue" 10Y:lHlty it would \eluntanli the ,ame pro eclion that white peopl
L:tdies, Gentlem.en. lember ar more than. an) th1Jlg eLe .3.': race.t. C.a.rt.eI' Gla:. la.:t )"e3r, to get m t.uCl. • ·t',.er W3, I happier or rr-ore elatel. c(jmpo the ncoJn lnc.ie elldent t"c to it that the.-e things were done. are entitled to ;Jnd tihouJcJ have eq,'
Friends or lh. ncoln Ind.p('nde:. a le- .enlp ofn larger ,'lSI. l., a lea,,!" '''th leadig egroe, In aU .ectlon., tl:ough put out of position and home, Ticket: I' BUI the truth of the matter L lhe right to acce, to the \la)·or or .11\;.
Part y, Fellow Citizen: ! r.r.-'hl (I) COIl\"lct n 3u t. c'lura, or t nauoo, .to caU a confel1ce at " ith not.hing assured a to the future, For Counh OlTicer. Rc.publican party of today is not tJl other pa.Y officer:, wh n they ha, ,.
\\ e ha\e gathereu here tonight t"'\ t·, tt. • .,. COIl\!cUon There I \1 a!hmglNn lffitaDeo""I)' "'.'th the My moral. ictory ;, of the fi,.,.t order. her'ff ,,"rr N Pr tb . Republican p:lrty of toenty-fi"e ears PO. bllc b,.mess to lfanS3ct. It is DOtl
launch n i ndependnt mu\m":. a gro\\,g "1m of :In awaketung con· leass"mbhng of Congre», to place be- A"d there is really no other kir.d of Co. o;""c;rk--" .DI"'rae o,, ago. tb:lt bind .ohf cOIred man who !
which io de.tined t l) bber.lte mllh.11' SClOU3Jl(l;S among the colored people fre ucb :I conferenre the C:LC Of. the \;cton' in thi, world. Ail eLe is de- ("ir. Court Clerk T. II. Glah:lm Tne original RepubiiC:ln party wa lluU e w.t . 'A:hlU' people, but te.n-oi
c.olored fellow-citizens from (.ale t". (land a.large share of tl'len cIJn· \uginia Xegro nepubhca. 1he) lu . ion: Goo and one good, brave man Ji:cr . . J;Cott '1unlt,·l fOiJndet.l in 1" 74, bein;.:- a union of "h CIOU. and cr,m element of tho col-thra'hng
of political ,Ia\·el·. I tltuOn:llf nghr., ad. ant h :lb,olut. a.s,;ert that they hav been ::ro" \ though 1 don't pretend to me morp, Coroner J 0 . C:lta Ia." ' Fl . :;oile. ., wh.o were at(ainH. In.- :;mm
Wh an Independent polilical ParI) U:llty opportumty m • pur,,,: .o,·erboard b)' the w e Hepu C:ln.-, th:ln moderately good and bra\'e) ar' Count\' Att\·. II I h II h I h'\ F I ' _ . "" "'. •
Fi1't becauEe it i, the contitullO':- 0,. hfe, libertr ":"" happme,,,. \\ :lnd want to "know Ju.t " here the) a1",n\., ';CI.01'5 whatever the appear. Co t·. J I' . J.(' III ';;:_::d ne I. ;;'i ,n";'I\' trolled. 'l'his is true. not bec:lu,,
all right of :III free American citizen.· ::",11 not "" t nUI the,e :ue fully .re. aer :It:: The "Lilly Blacks" "",ert :I"ce. Henceforth my confidence in /OIT::r: Fm Cit; t La: I co. untry a iket I f'a(I1 hy Juhll '. !C,·)O· : reaOOndlc""cn·lnulnu:lbe. Ct3.usenrortl:"lel':'
to organize and uppon any p:ln) "I.zed and enjoyed b) mer:, m mOl" they will poll :I larger ,'ote ttu:' tile God will be :lb50Iute. 1 h3ve leameJ II \. D P . If' - - '! which the.,. belie\'e come, e,-: of the race. Lily Whit, Repubhc:lns. Ch3Jrmah how to t=t Him and be triumph:u,:. A:d:r--'-::= _._ A. . on r l' re.mOl't. who \\3.' ". '·at . 1. I,ut !I. for the colored mce of thi, cit it'·
u,eir ideal of cltle .,h,p nf(h -. Tc The Lincoln Independent pany I Flood predict that Tnnkle \"11 car;, "From this ).ou will perceive that Tax Reeei""r 'r'. Fi:.;l ; a:,:;a;:i in,p;r,\ •. h ::"c rj!o ran :Id(' :iO:hel:n
fundamenl:ll pn"apl of the Lncc t. u;\e:' oa p:::o the ,:te by the la""." maJnl an. i,.t·e:ld of being defe:lted I h:l\'C only Park Comm·'· llf. ola C. Kin" pny 'a, .ucc('.fu 1Ii ,·Iect,n!!' Ab:-a- P:lrty lu.- obtai" '. ,uch a h'" u ,"
Jndepenc!all I' n) "re in perfect har- mom-n' for the colo-A peopla to r'''' candiU:1te bao had" ce the C.,ql ":If bl'W1 1.0 fight. And fight, 1 \\;11. . I r. J:tl:l r.raI1:11ll ham Llfoc .In pr(',"1 nt. tha _ Ih-t thn ,'ote -Imo as P'on
mony with t. prinCIple. th:lt :lC!U,"· _ • n:u - Be deel tb:lt the Repubhc:an; are ,,;u. tht weapon I can wield-my' pen _._W:I)-man _hemll .u , " e the fouL,ler, uf J ur Commone:lltJ •• b tl:e II'.lljesty of their poli ·cal righ", to he rouled at e'cry qU:lrter. '-"hich is migh 'er thar. the sword, Aldermen Lind':I\ r.arri'on Hi, elpc:tion "a the .ignal ror tn m:ln under the Log Cabin. withouf
that precipil:lted the rc,·oluu or.ru·, and break the _hackles of the politic:aT of all the tyrants who e,'er sought to .'f'C cion of the 'outhern tate". an·' knowinJ!: or C.ll;:'1_ ,at (:lntlid:lte r
war. The) belie\' then. as we ' lavery which ha3 bound them for the n.m.naung commmee !ollo\\ed tn throttle freedom :lnd enslave men . .: ·ii:;:;:allard. II. Lincol n, while peronally oppo('l principle i, invo!,·er!.
lieve now tlut "" "":ltion "ithu' pa_ fifty ye:us and demand that the "J'CCdl 01 "clwlrman :.iter \\ 11M minds. The fighting hencefonh "iii to : 1:I\ery ':l3 more cncmed . th I The R('vublrcan or. . nlZ:ltion in thi
representativll is Iyrann":' . men. who are to be OUl litirnllead- r. (;harle S er '\i1lJam of 11- be glorious. Row many valient 10uls .:. :;um, .anng the lm n. nd It ,,:I maller citl · elected by the eg,·o VOIk
Whenever any poilCltal r.J eN, .;hall not be pyOfesgonal tta»- GJaDapous, nu scho.al, orat., b:l\e rallied to me! Men and women, 'I H " t . "f [a:t tht. )(r. Lincoln me:llt f bec:au the 29 r r colort'I vote",
grows SO a rrogant 3nd auLocr_hc icP huoten" Ka.mble.l rd boc:.-!es::-e: ih r"'-CC : :ll1, p -tor of t· lite elt:c.:L of (.arth, even· nt :l '! : F ' r:, eOrner
), !'a\"e the. lon at any co.:t-\\hethr. wield the b.'1.tanrr Ite \er. The R -
t)) tot:1lly c"reg:lr,) the wi-he;. of bu men of cter and intelligence I Great Bethel A. M. B. Cb :lWl. 3 c:-lling in lire. in e\ery 'part of the ( . II' TYlo;.' :I' he ':1m In" I Uer tu H'ud r.rr- public:lns are afraid t; recogmze tM
forty thous:u.a (40,000) . -be they ,hite or colored I iL' voreo cancLc!ate for B op at w, lao.d, ha"e ri_en up and ass.uec! me I.l'Onard II a 11'\' I) . II m.'ant fr . lng : me or th coloml people after e!ectitn in an'
ci:tizens as the.locI Repubhc:an Mi. ,ne Independ"t.Party.,;u CODlpe! nut general .':"nf""".ce,, in $ 1 their admi. tion ,sbpport, :lnd loy 11"cr Repre,.entative:· ,Ia\e-. al lof the .la",,', or n"n .1 way except by encouraging the ,.;
il:ne has done the Clbe oI .the. Cl " .hate r .part 10 1Il power to recog- dd an.! dell'ered an ad tilat a lty. Old Ineod3 a nd new and ako- 5ith Leg. Di - Re'-. J . B. Col De,' I,e .Ia.,·e • And the ",-uch Pral'e-I cious an,! (riminaI, with gambling aJ."
izens of LouI",.,lIe when the re)&" - Dlze the indepenlent black -vote and will. long leo .emembered th W" lute stranger have flooded me with - th Leg. Dis. __ . Wil"on . 1.)\'e.: .rnanCIP:ltlO:l Proelrunatlon a .l liquor .,onceEsions. Thil arrangement
that they ha,e ""':e sat \dl e: Jlli, eloc;aent 'Olee Be la - message · that ha\e "armed my heart 56th Leg. Dis. _ W. W. WiI,on ::, e"I::,,::t d\\ whereby 29/CO color poopl eled&
recogruzed before. ThJQUih I eJ . the iJ.,dpendent movement an:.! an nered my so. Of COUl_ I 54th LeI!:. Dis .lame. H. Hath:lwa the Republica ticket and are rewan!­pared
to represent u, and fob-ted uj' dpendent Party ". colored peop, _ I " gloWUlg tnbute to. the Ieaoen. therefore, you know my plan. It ih For Sen:ltor ._."1 Willi. Colp their ann the s!3\' would be free!. eel by h:lving their criminal ela.- En
on us a white man totally unknowo WlU be the benefie», 1t er and appealed to all to stick by those to remain here in the uth, if I can 7th llagis erial Di,trict: .0 the Repu!,Fc:ln Part,· ",a. given cournged and pr ected, i :I menace
to nine-tenths of the citizens whom not wh:!t party Wlns the e)eeti We who had lbe ytslon. tbe intelligence secure a maintenance here for mj Jutice or P.::ce Willi:lm W:lrle,; the crei o f ing the . IM·e'. t. this ommuni :. Any race or body
he is suppoEeel to repreoent, simply ,,:iIl ha"e more fl'l'pec\ ",,:,d con_Id,,:,, and the courage to launch he Inde- family ,and fignt the good tight on Tb Parly Plalrorm. The •• tU:lllon that flIowed the war oi people who vote b'indIy for ncb
because he happen$ to have a -hl tion !r? both the dOIDl t paltlb pen.dent Pay, the only m'um tbru the field "here it w begun and The report of the Pi:ltform m a. handled very unwI't'ly. as we _I!e a reward wonld be ually sinister.
okin, ",;';ch is an in.ult lo every after Noember • 1921. whiCll the Negro ",:oulJ C\et amount where the victory must be. There k mittee wa,; read ' b Mr. Willi:lm It no So muc.h so that the fr.,.,.-l Mrs. Ca tieman's Re.arb.
",,1I-rting egro in the city oJ From tonight, God helping us, e to more than a too,. a rnnt and a nothing important but this I . . y rn:ln artl Ihe fermer master were pu,"
Loui.,.viIle and the "tate of Kentnck; CeaEe to be the pri\'nte property 01 sl:lv'; politically. lie informed "1 cannot close without sa),ing tha: \\::.:e;hii:L::1I7; sneral and th. :It o:lgger', points with each othr
and we propose to re-ent it in a mot any politi party but . COIltend hearers that the eye.; 0 • . nation the Associated Negro Pre.» bas don. Colored People in Part' ular: ,I""pite tbe rae they hOO to Ii e in tile
en:phatic wa, on tho day of the elee· for every nght guaranteed to us un · ;ere on Kentock)' and VUgJDla, thai a splendid piece of ne" _ dk'tflbutio.l . . ou. h to!'lther. Subsequently groat
bon by electing men of our race (' der tbe constitution_ We are intelli- the independent mo,emenl in :13- and that llr Det . eIIer b"" rendered The LIc.)ln Indepnden part I. men like Charles Summer were de-repre.
('nt U', who alone can do _0 In gent enough to kno our rigtl and Tille was the dawn of the ne )" b) !hi _ or':: a distinct ", nice to t " a ogaruZ:ltlon lookIng to the e."" . "Ioped in the Republican party-men
the . pint of justice and falr play. We have courage en("Jgb to dem d them. the spirit of the nf;W ,'egn that cOUlItry." ClpallOO of the race from pohuc:ll who tried to make the Republican ;;.:.:::.::.II-.ww-. IU.iI:I&lI:IWlIl.Ali!.!!
cea,e from now on to ow our:e'·e. Some of tM TIliJap for Whidl . the Jlli, in.p· bon ou of e .:orld r ____ _ _ sla\·ery. . . . . patyr bcome the friend of the lowl;,. 5--:::f:':':::;:::'::;.:o;=::;,;
t.) .the .CI/.t.·s pa . fo the Reubhca I lndepeodeat tDcobI Party 5&.1 as he l'OUglit agaJ autoc.-a· alonl t.) the member. ol the Inde nddlt Its onJl:ln Vi'3.' C:luei and In -pu'e-I the pr of • pised humanity.
Machine In LowSYllle r any other 1 f\bsolut uart of 0 rtUni- 'de & ml!!lo@ of Negroes of tite . pe b} the re.pectPd erro of the local But thi. nobe spmt gradually sub- """'
pelit'caI machine. r our dan.·s .I . .; - e I Y PPO Englih and F -::h and for the 1lUn- party to stick er, that thougo Republican machine to fru l!;lle e\ r sided until in the adminirtration of
,orouP oI the Log ·abin, the Repub- t, m he ':""" of life. oc:racr of the Anglo 0 cI e tile), W uld be cnUCIsed y that type eHort made b)' members of th race William Taf it b:ld entirely died.
liran party has grown bold to belle·c, 2. dJ representa on l\t \he In:: world. Be an"'G' liIe, ti6etty, eqll:ll who could see the I 1Il no mo\-: to try for elective offices The local I nder Theodore Roose,elt it flared
that . e are nothin more than poht- I rum. ,. ere the 1:1 . made tba. ja;ti;; and th.e pursuit of happines' ment that . doe" nOl meet the .appro,- Republicans throuh them lve ' plac- ur and for awhile :lppeared to burn
ieal sla\'es-to nd com:lt . f tax r property. . . ar.d '1611 hav,! nothing else, said th I or th lr. bO- ' : In dU time tbe eO in office by virtue of tile colorei again under Roose,elt·s declaration
ccmmand and' the straight eo 3. Our proporuo te mare m the speaker_ He bitterly as.•, •, iled hI: hole race tn Low.,:oe wOd ru- vote, h:!\'e absolutely refused to ar· of. "All men up and no m:ln down." .
r-ub,iCdJI tic\et reg:\rdle of whom \ ell', Iwnen 01 otJid.ll pmerment. white rep lie:ms, local and natiornl, oend e e,trrt 3Dd "ould pa} tr:uw point colored men or women to po- Then came Toft with his weak-kneecJ sement as the colored w"Omen. f
the licket i., compC':'ed. In fact it 13 4. . ' intimidation cr dun in til was vigorous m his criticism of i- twr. nSlon and coura e_ You sitions of truEt or honor or e,en t ;"oposition th31 he woulrl :lppoin n lae the colored poopl . h.'e h
not our bUloiJ.e s 0 in'luUe or look full eo e ' oC QUI sulra e ri hI dent Rardig and denounc.e d ,ciciouly ' arc settmg . t.h e .Jl:.'c e for tbe rae ordinarily conspicuous plac: excep' colored man to office when white Jl("- colored I clo, Iy a; OClated W'L.
for the name' or he .andida but 5. We O . e absolute allegiance tbe "Cn Tom" . -""ro tb .la, thughout Amen and w . York, ose mnial !n character and not $a- I'll' object. That marked the d th of 'lur family Me. for ea,., We
SImply to look for the Log Cab", a d J::either of the ' 'Rant political ,-at- or the D of a s!3ve type, the _- e;rro Chicago, lndWl:lpoi1s e'e plare ,,,fied 'nth this have opp. . .l by fa.r the onginal Republ iC:ln party. , ,ne COOk. I rt) -fi"e ) 31'5 G od re
tamp under that and ask no qu'- tit'S. that . 0 . vote. Repubilcan tie et iC 1 h:l\' .eeD on m) ng .tour thy means and foul all effON made U/ u' ':Iy ambitious F'r:UJk Hitcheoc.1c, er ul. ADd 1 cIon't. bev '"
tions. This con tion bas placed U' 6. We beLe.-e i inci n had a ellow dog on it, the -egro are dl "" Injr 0 and flngmg pfBJ - the Race to elect our own people tv chairman of the National RepubJic.n bod: iml-, the colo man d _
in er; un . te attitude, to th nden otin that he 11) that alF.lf. re:ldy to turn traitor - untO ·o tand up men, ani office e n to repreent u in districts Committee. to break the solid to''': uthe,!,er, and that u ually """'"
extent, 'e are • .med by the Repub- tim:ltel\' .,,!;, his 'IIi":: enrn- h his fIIle at the requHt of "bos.," worn _of lDdep('ndce and self re- almot whotly colored. I at the f'q)l'ne of ('. 'l!'fo be,,". '0 Democrat.
l;can part)' and l;utted by the Den:o-. -. I Geo"", ,pect. ); ou are bUlldmg a monument 'ow this i vel': im"onant. Xo· Tem:lte tbe whole party until it b:ld 1 hold that th Democrats 1'e3I-uatic
party " mllly beeau e ha.-e p,ete emption. '1 Be 'Bid the Negro leader of tile p""".ing a call that e:""- for the thing would go farther toward Tai - no more 1»e for the j!TO than to 1:- the be:,t fri d of t colored
bli , dlf opposed the DemOCI1Ltic party 7. We can be nel bousht nor " I making of 3 race, a SPlMt that: per- in our people in the respect of other get his vo. Al er eight Ye:lrs 01 pie, ardlt 100 "ery much a th
at e"ery point. '""'Y name ftDem_ bluffed. Rub Stamp type should have mea5 the souls of unborn c:hildre,l \ groups of tho population, nothin;t Woodrow W\1.-:on, the election of War- , eolored peopl of the better ir
ou.t has or UJIC01l'clous- Dr_ o.an 0__ II;'" pub. been ead fifty yean ago. Dr. WiI- and grandchildren of your race." Dr. would go further toward disvellin reo G. Han!ing, as Republican Pre - this city are beginn:n to tralize the
51 falls into with the av- 'lhe nting of the platform lia grew eloquent as he appe \Vill iaml took his seat amid pro racial animosities, doubts and us- t Continued on Page 5) J truth of thi·.

One Of Greatest Political Meetings In Local History At Lions Garden RACE TICKET INCLUDES CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR Between five and six hundred citizens, one hundred and twenty of whom were accredited delegates, assembled at Lyon's Garden Wednesday night in the first convention of the Lincoln Independent party. The meeting was called to order by Rev. J. B. Colbert, acting as temporary chairman. Prayer was offered by the Rev. Watson of the Christian church after which the roll of delegates was called by Mrs. Nola King temporary secretary. A motion was next in order and Rev. Colbert, prominent churchman and citizen, a consistent fighter for the independence of the Negro in local politics, was elected permanent chairman and Mrs. Nolan King of the best known women in Louisville and Kentucky, a leader among women in politics and all that means for the good of the race and community was elected permanent chairman. Rev. Colbert was introduced in well chosen words by Mr. A. L. Garvin, well known insurance man and the opening gun in the convention was fired. Rev. Colbert brought the delegates to t heir feet in his very first utterances: "We have gathered here tonight in an independent movement which is destined to liberate millions of colored fellow citizens from the throttling of political slavery." He was applauded throughout his speech which follows:
Ladies, Gentlemen, Members and Friends of the Lincoln Independent Party, Fellow Citizens:
We have gathered here tonight to launch an i ndependent movement, which is destined to liberate millions of colored fellow-citizens from the thralling of political slavery.
Why an Independent Political Party.
First because it is the constitutionall right of all free American citizens to organize and support any party which they believe comes nearest their ideal of citizenship rights. The fundamental principles of the Lincoln Independent Party are in perfect harmony with the principles that actuated the founders of our Commonwealth, that precipitated the revolutionary war. They believed then, as we believe now that "Taxation without representation is tyranny."
Whenever any political party grows so arrogant and autocratic as to totally disregard the wishes of forty thousand (40,000) American citizens as the local Republican Mahine has done in the case of the citizens of Louisville when they rejected a member of our race in the Tenth Ward, who is in every respect prepared to represent us and foisted upon us a white man totally unknown to nine-tenths of the citizens whom he is supposed to represent, simply because he happens to have a white skin, which is an insult to every self-respecting Negro in the city of Louisville and the State of Kentucky and we propose to resent it in a most emphatic way on the day of the election by electing men of our race to represent us, who alone can do so in the spirit of justice and fair play. We cease from now on to allow ourselves to be the cat's paw for the Republican Machine in Louisville or any other political machine. By our slavish worship of the Log Cabin, the Republican party has grown bold to believe that we are nothing more than political slaves--to [sit?] and come at their command and [vote?] the straight Republican ticket regardless of whom the ticket is composed. In fact it is not our business to inquire or look for the names of the candidates but simply to look for the Log Cabin and stamp under that and ask no questions. This condition has placed us in very unenviable attitude, to the extent, we are awned by the Republican party and hated by the Democratic party simply because we have blindly opposed the Democratic party at every point. The very name "Democrat" has consciously or unconsciously fallen into disrepute with the average colored person on account of the faults and erroneous teachings of the professional politicians of the Republican party. We rejoice in the manifest change in the minds of the more intelligent colored people. They are recognizing their friends, not by the reflection of lifeless emblems but by the warm pulsating hearts of living personalities regardless of race, creed or religion.
We regard the organization of the Independent Lincoln party as the greatest step taken by the colored people in Louisville for political freedom since their emancipation. In fact it is nothing more or less than our second Emancipation, one that is destined to make us free indeed, for it will give us the power of autonomy, which is the right of all free men. The Lincoln Independent Party will enable us to say frankly to both dominant parties that, whichever party that will give us justice will be the party that will get our support and none other need apply. it matters not what may be the emblem or traditional training. We are living in the present, pregnant with the most hopeful signs of a larger freedom and a fuller life and not in the dead past of its reactionary tendencies and [antiquated?] ideas.
The Bible tells us "without a vision, people perish." What we need today more than anything else as a race is a leadership of a larger vision, a leadership of conviction and the courage to assert those convictions. There is a growing sign of an awakening consciousness among the colored people to demand a large share of their constitutional rights and an absolute equality of opportunity in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. We will not rest until these are fully realized and enjoyed by every member of the race.
The Lincoln Independent party is but the beginning of a nation wide movement. Now is the psychalogical moment for the colored people to rise in the majesty of their political rights and break the shackles of the political slavery which has bound them for the past fifty years and demand that the men, who are to be our political leaders, shall not be professional crapshooters, gamblers and boot-leggers, but men of character and intelligence--be they white or colored.
The Independent Party will compel whatever party is in power to recognize the independent black vote and in a way that they have never been recognized before. Through the Independent Party the colored people will be the beneficiaries, it matters not what party wins the election. We will have more respect and consideration from both the dominant parties after November 8, 1921.
From tonight, God helping us, we cease to be the private property of any political party but will contend for every right guaranteed to us under the constitution. We are intelligent enough to know our rights, and have courage enough to demand them.
Some of the Things for Which the Independent Lincoln Party Stands.
1. Absolute equality of opportunity in the race of life.
2. Racial representation at the forum, where the laws are made that tax our property.
3. Our proportionate share in the emoluments of official preferment.
4. No intimidation or duress in the full exercise of our [suffrage?] rights.
5. We owe absolute allegiance to neither of the dominant political varties.
6. We believe it is through independent voting that the Negro will ultimately receive his full and complete redemption.
7. We can be [neither?] bought nor bluffed.
Dr. Charles Summer Williams Speaks.
The appointing of the platform nominating committees followed the speech of the chairman after which Dr. Charles Summer Williams of Indianapolis, noted scholar, orater, preacher and race man, pastor of the great Bethel A. M. E. Church and a favored candidate for Bishop at the next general conference, was introduced and delivered an address that will long be remembered by those who sat under his eloquent voice. He lauded the independent movement and paid a glowing tribute to the leaders and appealed to all to stick by those who had the vision, the intelligence and the courage to launch the Independent Party, the only medium thru which the Negro would ever amount to more than a tool, a servant and a slave, politically. He informed his hearers that the eyes of the nation were on Kentucky and Virginia, that the independent movement in Louisville was the dawn of the new day, the spirit of the new Negro that got his inspiration out of the world war as he fought against autocracy along side of the millions of Negroes of the English and French and for the democracy of the Anglo Saxons of the world. He wants life, liberty, equal justice and the pursuit of happiness and will have nothing else, said the speaker. He bitterly assailed lily white republicans, local and national, was vigorous in his criticism of President Harding and denounced viciously the "Uncle Tom" Negro, the slave, or the son of a slave type, the Negro that would vote a Republican ticket if it had a yellow dog on it, the Negro that was always ready to turn traitor to his race at the request of "boss" George.
He said the Negro leader of the "Rubber Stamp" type should have been dead fifty years ago. Dr. Williams grew eloquent as he appealed to the members of the Independent party to stick together, that though they would be criticised by that type who could see the good in no movement that does not meet the approval of their bosses, in due time the whole race in Louisville would commend the effort and would pay tribute to their vision and courage. "You are setting the pace for the race throughout America and New York, Chicago, Indianapolis and every place I have been on my speaking tour they are discussing you and singing praises unto you. Stand up men, and women of independence and self respect. You are building a monument pushing a cause that means for the making of a race, a spirit that permeats the souls of unborn children and grandchildren of your race." Dr. Williams took his seat amid prolonged applause.
Nominee Committee Reports: The Ticket.
The report of the Nomination Committee was read by Mr. I. Willis Cole and the following men and women compose the Lincoln Independent Ticket:
For County Officers.
Sheriff....William N. Prather
Co. Court Clerk....Dr. Horace Morris
Cir. Court Clerk....T. H. Graham
Jailer....Scott Turner
Coroner....J. O. Catalan Co
County Atty.....M. M. Willis
County Judge....A. L. Garvin
For Officers From City at Large.
Mayor....A. D. Porter
Auditor....E. H. Courtney
Tax Receiver....Mrs. Lillie Simmons
Park Comm's'rs.....Mrs. Nola C. King
....Mrs. Etta Graham
....Wayman Sherrill
Aldermen....Lindsay Garrison
....Dr. Wilson Ballard,
W. E. Lewis,
Abraham Simpson
Dr. M. A. Blackburn,
M. H. Montgomery,
W. F. Gurley,
I. B. Taylor.
Leonard Haley.
For Representatives:
57th Leg. Dis.....Rev. J. B. Colbert
58th Leg. Dis.....Wilson S. Lovett
56th Leg. Dis.....W. W. Wilson
54th Leg. Dis.....James H. Hathaway
For Senator....I Willis Cole
7th Magisterial District:
Justice of Peace....William Warley
The Party Platform.
The report of the Platform Committee was ready by Mr. William Warley which follows:
To the Citizens in General and the Colored People in Particular:
The Lincoln Independent party is an organization looking to the emancipation of the race from political slavery.
Its origin was caused and inspired by the respected efforts of the local Republican machine to frustrate every effort made by members of the race to try for elective offices. The local Republicans through themselves placed in office by virtue of the colored vote, have absolutely refused to appoint colored men or women to positions of trust or honor or even to ordinarily conspicuous places except those menial in character and not satisfied with this have oppressed by fair means and foul all efforts made by the Race to elect our own people to office even to represent us in districts almost wholly colored.
Now this is very important. Nothing would go farther toward raising our people in the respect of other groups of the population, nothing would go further toward dispelling racial animosities, doubts and suspicions than the contact of other race groups with members of our race groups in the capacity of public servants and officials, both a ppointive and [elective?].
If the Republican party was our friend, if it were not and ingrate and was at all appreciative of our continued loyayyity it would voluntarily see to it that these things were done.
But the truth of the matter is the Republican party of today is not the Republican party of twenty-five years ago.
The original Republican party was founded in 1854, being a union of the Free Soilers, who were against slavery, and the Whigs and the Anti-Federalists. In 1856 it presented to the country a ticket headed by John C. Fremont, who was defeated. But the anti-slavery spirit had grown so strong that in 1860 the Republican party was successful in electing Abraham Lincoln president.
His election was the signal for the secession of the Southern States, and Mr. Lincoln, while peronally opposed to slavery was more concerned with saving the Union. And it is a matter of fact that Mr. Lincoln meant to save the Union at any cost--whether, as he said in a letter to Horace Greely, it meant freeing some of the slaves, all of the slaves, or none of the slaves. And the much praised Emancipation Proclamation was so dated as to be merely a threat that unless the rebellious states laid down their arms the slaves would be freed. So the Republican Party was given the credit of freeing the slaves.
The situation that followed the war was handled very unwisely, as we see it now. So much so that the freed man and the former master were put at dagger's pints with each other despite the fact they had to live in the South together. Subsequently great men like Charles Summer were developed in the Republican party--men who tried to make the Republican patyr become the friend of the lowly, the protector of despised humanity. But this nobe spirit gradually subsided until in the administration of William Taft it had entirely died. Under Theodore Roosevelt it flared up and for awhile appeared to burn again under Roosevelt's declaration of, "All men up and no man down." Then came Taft with his weak-kneed proposition that he would appoint no colored man to office when white people object. That marked the death of the original Republican party. The unholy ambitious Frank Hitchcock, chairman of the National Republican Committee, to break the solid South at the expense of the Negro beg an to peremate the whole party until it had no more use for the Negro than to get his vote. After eight years of Woodrow Wilson, the election of Warren G. Harding, as Republican Pres- (Continued on Page 5.)
W. Overton Harris And Mrs. Castleman Speak Before Thousands On Race Issue MAKES TIMELY ATTACK ON REPUBLICANS The speeches of Mr. Overton Harris, Democratic candidate for Mayor, and Mrs. Margaret Weissinger Castleman before the thousands of white people, at the opening of the Democratic campaign at the Auditorium Tuesday night, in which the Colored people and their votes were given much attention, are regarded by Colored people throughout the city, Independents, Republicans and Democrats alike, as the most forceful, logical and open minded expressions ever uttered from the lips of white candidates before white audiences by any candidates and campaign speakers in local history. Never has any party candidate gone out of his or her way to say so much for the sole benefit of our group. Never has there been such a corroboration of the independent thinking leaders of the race. Never has so much been said that should make the Negro man and woman reflect and take a second thought for his political and general welfare in a community where he must need have the friendship and co-operation of a ll peoples regardless of creed or politics. Never has so much been said that should make mothers and fathers think if they are doing all they might do politically for the future advancement of their sons and daughters. Never have mem- of the things for the making, for the power and influence of another group, thoughts expressed that should have been the opinion, the expression, the policy of Negro leaders fifty years ago. The speeches of Mr. Harris and Mrs. Castleman speak for themselves and are reprinted here:
What Mr. Harris Said.
"Let us now consider the so-called race question, which would never be a problem, except for the exploitation of the Negro by the Republican party.
When the Negro vote is spoken of the Republican party always get excited and resentful, feelnig that it is an intrusion upon their private property. The accuse the Democrats of raising the race issue when they, themselves, have made it impossible not to discuss or recognize and discuss a state of fact.
The self-respecting, law-abiding colored people, who [work?] for their living are entitled to the [illegible] protection in their rights to life, liberty and property. They are entitled to the same protection that white people are entitled to, and should have equal right to access to the Mayor or any other party officers when they have public business to transact. It is not that kind of colored man who has trouble with white people, but te vicious and criminal element of the colored race which is a menace to this community, and must be rigidly controlled. This is true, not because they are colored but because they are vicious and criminal. Unfortunately for the colored race of this city it is through the ignorant and vicious element of Negroes that the Republican party has obtained such a hold upon the race that they vote almost as one man under the Log Cabin, without knowing or caring what candidate or principle is involved.
The Republican organization in this city was elected by the Negro vote because the 29,000 colored voters wield the balance of power. The Republicans are afraid to recognize the colored people after election in any way except by encouraging the vicious and criminal, with gambling and liquor concessions. This arrangement whereby 29,000 colored people elected the Republican ticket and are rewarded by having their criminal class encouraged and protected, is a menace to this community. Any race or body of people who vote blindly for such a reward would be equally sinister.
Mrs. Castleman's Remarks.
"The only way to get things in this country is to get them on the inside of the political party." Now this is eminently important in the case of the Democratic women. It has been shown that at the last election 83 out of every 100 colored women registered, whereas only 60 out of every 100 white women did so. Now, I hold no brief tonight against a colored woman's right to the suffrage which shall not be abridged by color or sex; but I am amazed and indignant that the white women should not show at least as much appreciation of their enfranchisement as the colored women. I like the colored people. We have had colored peopel closely associated with our family life for years. We had one cook forty-five years. God rest her soul! And I don't believe anybody knows the colored man as does a Southerner, and that usually means a Democrat.
I hold that the Democrats are really the best friends of the colored people, and it looks very much as though colored people of the better class in this city are beginning to realize the truth of this.
RATIC SPEAKERS MAKE STRONG PL FOR .RACE INDEPENDENCE IN POLITICS
KENTUCKY'S GREATEST WEEKLY
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,,n-. one hund1 nQ t\\eJ t. II Ite iauJ!' and eflonenJ' teachu - u! a. Lexingtou by Col. H. W. Ander_ou, lent rOT tb A",-OCt:lt .! - e"ro I're,-. Ed"an! F. Ilu ne. rorrner I!:ovrnor. n,. Democratic .al didate f,.r Ia)or, oC ail people. re., . rdl • .:IC reed or
whom WeI' accredited elegate, ,,-: tlle I-rofe-,iOI I,o.itici ns of th(' lle- RepubliC:lll lommt'\ Ior Go\cmor; 1111 his tatemenl Co\. Kerlin pral·e, i, chairm,n or th council. \\hich ha :lnd :\If". I:lr!"'lre W('i '". 'er Ca.- poli:I - ·e\·cr ha So mllC:h be!t,
sembI :It L\·on,· \;a.n n Wedn -! rubLc"", party. II e rejoice in t hp completion of the full egro ticket ltbe new'p:lel" for the r • 'rollS reo e,t:lbli,h",1 ortl.,., :It If South La t'em:ln b-rore th t ou.-:llll, (or \\\I't 3io t!-at should mak(' the, an· I
da, ni ht i,,' tbe :iNt "venti r. of lIT. I fe't c"an(' in Ihp mind· C tl.p for staw ffi • and a roll from 'IK.n,, of """i,e aud !,"Ood will. HI! alle. t. With the fin:lnci:ll and mor- peopl('. at he 01 IlIn" of thp lI·m - ( ther_ think if th r are doing a;i
Linco,n I clepc., el,t part)·. Tile rrore illteU.i1Z" nl colored people. Til J Chainnan Flood to tate tor £. declares t the ldltorlal (;xpt"e:- ion a :-upport r thf' let titizenry in ht cratic campaism at til.- .\u,iit nUll'.! the): mil!ht (10 pO!luraU) f r thl' ru
meeting ". 'a ca!led to uroer by Itt' nr.e re-cognizing their frient Utlt by :e-e Trinkle to take th. c :::tlurnp on be- I [10m our ne\\:;}h:. rs 1,.:0 .to"my hear: . tn f" mf"llll . r 3y, teJ!"islalion ban· Tu d:h· niht, in \\ hl(h hto
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J. B. Col'.ert. ctin' u-mporan . (: l"fI'li ctio: of 1"1' c::- emhlem"- Lt' h:!JC or the ticket whieb f' he::uls, I t(\ ch!er an t !)trc.n then It. jl;;hill th Kl"\l\ ("3n be obtrune.J. a, it pC'oJ Ie ',nul thf'ir ,·otr, ,\('fe J!"h·l'n d .• It:"hH.· . ='t·lit '" h.l \ ,. m·'" 10-
airm.an. P'r.t ·\:r '""3 olTereu by th(; hy hE' "\\'ann pul::nting hE'art"- of L\·· In i;:-peech at Le 'inon Col. An. Col. Kerlin tlcclars that he \\a 3o; in th(' R·)uth at er it n"iJm ot" much att('ntion. are r"'J""3nlll* Ly C I· ot the thi!l)f! i.'r Ule maklrlJ:. f r U1,c
Re\'. \\"at,. " (,'" t .(' Chrbtia churd: I :rl! pe1"=--lnliif), re::l"rdle:- .;; of r:"S. t1l:on made an atwc on the- Dem- t I.,e·er ppierJ i :'t _inS!u of ten'or durin,! the day or civil \\ . l (l11 people t rfluc-hout t {' ('it . 11!.le power itud 1!l1
U(.'ne'· of an(lth.r gnJU.,.,
after whir r or ,1ele\.":lte w. rrf!'t'd or religlon. ot"rabc pan)". which he ch:nacterizht eelnt: uefeated 1 a c onl beJ'"Un tf! recon rudil)t1. penden , RppuhHc=tn:- 11 ,1 lIt m(\('"ral! th,.ui!ht ePJ e. t ,.1.: !'ohoulfl b\t.
called by'\l • ·U:.1 .Kin tempt,rar.\ I \"e l"E',b"11rd the onnization. of \! a a.··political an con')mic t)·rnnn),·: fih.· nd .he ",.·n continue to 13L(lr It j the intr-ntior to or3nize - -a- alH\p. a::o the rno4 rorc:eful. TOJ,!'icul all: been the ('pi ·un, the eprc!":-ion) the
s-ec.rctar}. .\ mtltl n wa r.(:.·t.11 ,. lcmpentier t Lwcolu pany a lill. holdl.ll.g the Republican party up 4.t."' t for JUstice In the South. tiona1 rnity Cf,u'ldl committee:;; m open minded expre-!i'ifll}C: e\'er utten'tl 1)OIicy of . ·(':.!'TO leade, fifty yror
der d HH·. Culbl:n. ilronula 1 'I bfeate:-t tcp lh.eu Ly the col01CJ t·le onh- mean of tb l"e:-lor.ltion oi t The complete :::.tte.ment Iollo\t: f' \·('ry communih- 2.nd counln· whero from thp lip of white C3ndidlte I"le- a1!"(I. Tl " fit"''-·} f' . elf lr. Harn::;: am;
cbu.rehmUh anti citizen. a con:-i:-tel.t I {:tlpl(:: in Louh.\·ille for political free· a free iro'·emment. in Yirginia. Hp. "Xe\"'!r ,,a:, there. a more ilThLanta- thE" lGan ha al('a(h· e5=tabli;-;hE"d : fore white aud·t'nc(t L\· 3n,· (:lOI) )lr:-. C tLl·mal p ak fnr t '·m . d"!·
fighter for the independence of tLe uom since their n lllcipation. Ib I ded:lreJ that the esential i-u s 0' I cenu.; :lnd .generous re.-ponse to :lny footho d :In, I to p"U;t out the dnnl!('r date, an.I C:lmpaign ,p;"'kr in Inc,l a.,,] are reprintro here:
l\eJ!TO in Ivcal p')litk W3:-: electt inct it is nothing m(,e or le::- u:.a.J the campaign are not pulitic'l but thut 3 of se.nce an IY.o a h:e of the cecrct order .by p:t 'otic de h!story_ - ' f'V"'- ha:- 3n:-- rarty candi- \\ hal )tr. lIarn Said.
pE:n:nanenl ;:,irman and l r. Xolar OUT econd Emancipation, one that IS the real qu-tion i.:- one of the mal_- gl\.en to Jrune, p- 0.0,.:, 1 ".33. Tllut mont:ration. Comlty. T"3ther tha" date Jr(,ne out (l.f hi I)r her way til • Lel u, 114'\\ c\ lI!'oJllcr H.c O-C.lllcu
K.ing o! t ht? be:--t klltlWh women. I G.tined to make u.s free inde6!'i, f(\ agement 'Jif 3yahs ju \"irgillja. JI;: I re:,ponse has been not on y msnta- nmit-. bftweeon rnct"!'. reli$riou.;; $.3y ,0 mach (or thE:' sole bene-fit of I":,"e ({Uf:'. t.·)11 WI1'(: 1 '\UI.II(I n ,." •
Loui,,;lle and Kectucky. :I lea. de. I i \\iIl give us the power. of autonom.r. asserted th:lt monns can not be hop- n.eou: and g",:,.ero.u; , bQ enthu''''''tc group', :lnd politiC:ll parti(" will b£ our up. \'eJ: ha. the b-en "problem, except 10.· Ule ejJlolwtion
among women in Iolill 'and all lho.t V'hich is the right of all free men. ed for Irom the Democrats :lnd th"t I and elo !ue' t In e.'l.pre.;'ons of gmtl- " ocourat(ed. .uch :I :o,:",bnratto of h" ,".Jep('. 0" the :\egro by the I. publican parh.
means for the goo! of the rce I The Lincoln Independent party will the "politirnl macltine" permits no in-I tude a praie. It make' me :U:'- . Formel' G"etnor ?unne, in accet. dnt thInk,":! INulpr, or th rac;,; Illwn tilt _ ''''lfr" \·ot" IS .pokeu i
emmunity w:! eleeted perman ,I el :lble u.s to .ay fr:llkly to both dO-1 depend('oce and no ueviation from It. der "hat OUI pre. "Quld do e lDj! the ch,"rmansh.p. branded tr.(' - e\"er h:l. - "lur I'n a.d tlu. the HepuLllcan pan I",,» I,'(!t eJ­chairm:
m Re'·. Colbert was lntT ,- inant p.arties- t.hl, ,\hlc.hever Jriln) oroers and no one can be elected lo ::oe leal hero to appe:r:md ,,-0 :-om:!- Klan 3 a ''men:lce to this 3nti 30Y houlrl ma.ke the ('gTO ma.n a .1 Wol- cited and re-.entJuJ. .i.ec,ni th3t. it IS
duced. in wen cho::-e.n word by lir. A that wI:l give u; jUlice 'will be th t c.ulce on the Democratic ticket e.xcep: I thing reall:' great. . ! '. 3\e before. m community,·' in their a.d'lption of the man Et-ft"('t. d fakp a o('c.lI1d thouehl all intru.:-iou upon lheir ·p,·ate prop.
L. Gan;". well known insurance m " party that will get uur _upport UI,I!".th the support oI the m:lc:hine." !":rhap t"em) editoru1$. from oUl "equipmentoftheburglar-m:l5kS :lno or hIS pOhll1 and J!:eneral welfa", crty. The a:cu.", the Democrats ot
and the opening gun in the convent\" n none other need apply. it matter.; Jlot Col. Anderson s:lid the barring Of' pre, that ".ould do crctht to an) implement. of violence." Col. F. A. 10 a community where he mu. nee'l =wg the ra:e Issue when they,
was find. Rev. Colbert brought thE' wh:!t may be the emblem or u-adi- egro.:, from the Republican tate press on this globe. They go .to my Deruson. formerly colonel of the 8£b Ihemlves, ha"e made it impossile.
=so ,: .: i:e:i' : :n:,;nt\t:::tio: vetton oa:k :ra thn : ; tucr :!,::; ItW: :e: bc::: pppointed :I mem- :, t :tcto;f :,!r ;::. uut to tti5C"--- or recognhe ®d
tonigJIt in an independent mo\-eme\l' ful sign,; of :I larger freedoln and :\ t ta :lnd thaI it remo",. the race an c:annot put for"" lIlto his blow. I group in the cap:lcity of public , '" cc". a tate of [act.
1I'hich i d""tined to liberate millions fuller life :lnd not in the de:ld Pbt quetion from politics or political ag .a a. r ;ghteous and h lan cause wbel I(mged app."use. \'ants and official" both a ppo.nu\e The sel[-respectll1g, ':'jI!i._:f.:ltUi;.ti'o. -:!::' 14',J-c,\'"r r ' . , - e._ "0 ted man ' oOllo"'" C'ruml!lN' R,' " i-'£ ,. land .£t e. ,;olore,);!d.pe.oepl!te'itM·" rtiPl!fIirir-.-=
g of political sla,e"" He l ti'qated ide"; , • , tllb; :'e ·";pleted· their fu l; gratef1 e.yes :"" tUlned upon him, I Tid el: . . the Repu ucan IJ'U wa, ou tection ' the . h to rr libe
'IllS applauded throughout hIE .pee.Jl 'Foe Bible tell, L_ "\\ithout a yj!joa. Sl ti et. :luthorizing Jo;eph P01- w.he,:o man hopes are fixed upon The leport ol the omm:lt.on Con.· \:nt ifali :';;"::ti":tl ':' C.':,I lnd p":;;"rt)." )s are neUtled n ,
which follo . s: I people perish." \\hat we oeeJ toda,)' lard, \\ 0 ran ag-.1inst tate .Senato. hixo .\, "" for myoelC and my plan3. :t":'h;\·%I1:":.1n bYrr:' l; r'lliwo unue" 10Y:lHlty it would \eluntanli the ,ame pro eclion that white peopl
L:tdies, Gentlem.en. lember ar more than. an) th1Jlg eLe .3.': race.t. C.a.rt.eI' Gla:. la.:t )"e3r, to get m t.uCl. • ·t',.er W3, I happier or rr-ore elatel. c(jmpo the ncoJn lnc.ie elldent t"c to it that the.-e things were done. are entitled to ;Jnd tihouJcJ have eq,'
Friends or lh. ncoln Ind.p('nde:. a le- .enlp ofn larger ,'lSI. l., a lea,,!" '''th leadig egroe, In aU .ectlon., tl:ough put out of position and home, Ticket: I' BUI the truth of the matter L lhe right to acce, to the \la)·or or .11\;.
Part y, Fellow Citizen: ! r.r.-'hl (I) COIl\"lct n 3u t. c'lura, or t nauoo, .to caU a confel1ce at " ith not.hing assured a to the future, For Counh OlTicer. Rc.publican party of today is not tJl other pa.Y officer:, wh n they ha, ,.
\\ e ha\e gathereu here tonight t"'\ t·, tt. • .,. COIl\!cUon There I \1 a!hmglNn lffitaDeo""I)' "'.'th the My moral. ictory ;, of the fi,.,.t order. her'ff ,,"rr N Pr tb . Republican p:lrty of toenty-fi"e ears PO. bllc b,.mess to lfanS3ct. It is DOtl
launch n i ndependnt mu\m":. a gro\\,g "1m of :In awaketung con· leass"mbhng of Congre», to place be- A"d there is really no other kir.d of Co. o;""c;rk--" .DI"'rae o,, ago. tb:lt bind .ohf cOIred man who !
which io de.tined t l) bber.lte mllh.11' SClOU3Jl(l;S among the colored people fre ucb :I conferenre the C:LC Of. the \;cton' in thi, world. Ail eLe is de- ("ir. Court Clerk T. II. Glah:lm Tne original RepubiiC:ln party wa lluU e w.t . 'A:hlU' people, but te.n-oi
c.olored fellow-citizens from (.ale t". (land a.large share of tl'len cIJn· \uginia Xegro nepubhca. 1he) lu . ion: Goo and one good, brave man Ji:cr . . J;Cott '1unlt,·l fOiJndet.l in 1" 74, bein;.:- a union of "h CIOU. and cr,m element of tho col-thra'hng
of political ,Ia\·el·. I tltuOn:llf nghr., ad. ant h :lb,olut. a.s,;ert that they hav been ::ro" \ though 1 don't pretend to me morp, Coroner J 0 . C:lta Ia." ' Fl . :;oile. ., wh.o were at(ainH. In.- :;mm
Wh an Independent polilical ParI) U:llty opportumty m • pur,,,: .o,·erboard b)' the w e Hepu C:ln.-, th:ln moderately good and bra\'e) ar' Count\' Att\·. II I h II h I h'\ F I ' _ . "" "'. •
Fi1't becauEe it i, the contitullO':- 0,. hfe, libertr ":"" happme,,,. \\ :lnd want to "know Ju.t " here the) a1",n\., ';CI.01'5 whatever the appear. Co t·. J I' . J.(' III ';;:_::d ne I. ;;'i ,n";'I\' trolled. 'l'his is true. not bec:lu,,
all right of :III free American citizen.· ::",11 not "" t nUI the,e :ue fully .re. aer :It:: The "Lilly Blacks" "",ert :I"ce. Henceforth my confidence in /OIT::r: Fm Cit; t La: I co. untry a iket I f'a(I1 hy Juhll '. !C,·)O· : reaOOndlc""cn·lnulnu:lbe. Ct3.usenrortl:"lel':'
to organize and uppon any p:ln) "I.zed and enjoyed b) mer:, m mOl" they will poll :I larger ,'ote ttu:' tile God will be :lb50Iute. 1 h3ve leameJ II \. D P . If' - - '! which the.,. belie\'e come, e,-: of the race. Lily Whit, Repubhc:lns. Ch3Jrmah how to t=t Him and be triumph:u,:. A:d:r--'-::= _._ A. . on r l' re.mOl't. who \\3.' ". '·at . 1. I,ut !I. for the colored mce of thi, cit it'·
u,eir ideal of cltle .,h,p nf(h -. Tc The Lincoln Independent pany I Flood predict that Tnnkle \"11 car;, "From this ).ou will perceive that Tax Reeei""r 'r'. Fi:.;l ; a:,:;a;:i in,p;r,\ •. h ::"c rj!o ran :Id(' :iO:hel:n
fundamenl:ll pn"apl of the Lncc t. u;\e:' oa p:::o the ,:te by the la""." maJnl an. i,.t·e:ld of being defe:lted I h:l\'C only Park Comm·'· llf. ola C. Kin" pny 'a, .ucc('.fu 1Ii ,·Iect,n!!' Ab:-a- P:lrty lu.- obtai" '. ,uch a h'" u ,"
Jndepenc!all I' n) "re in perfect har- mom-n' for the colo-A peopla to r'''' candiU:1te bao had" ce the C.,ql ":If bl'W1 1.0 fight. And fight, 1 \\;11. . I r. J:tl:l r.raI1:11ll ham Llfoc .In pr(',"1 nt. tha _ Ih-t thn ,'ote -Imo as P'on
mony with t. prinCIple. th:lt :lC!U,"· _ • n:u - Be deel tb:lt the Repubhc:an; are ,,;u. tht weapon I can wield-my' pen _._W:I)-man _hemll .u , " e the fouL,ler, uf J ur Commone:lltJ •• b tl:e II'.lljesty of their poli ·cal righ", to he rouled at e'cry qU:lrter. '-"hich is migh 'er thar. the sword, Aldermen Lind':I\ r.arri'on Hi, elpc:tion "a the .ignal ror tn m:ln under the Log Cabin. withouf
that precipil:lted the rc,·oluu or.ru·, and break the _hackles of the politic:aT of all the tyrants who e,'er sought to .'f'C cion of the 'outhern tate". an·' knowinJ!: or C.ll;:'1_ ,at (:lntlid:lte r
war. The) belie\' then. as we ' lavery which ha3 bound them for the n.m.naung commmee !ollo\\ed tn throttle freedom :lnd enslave men . .: ·ii:;:;:allard. II. Lincol n, while peronally oppo('l principle i, invo!,·er!.
lieve now tlut "" "":ltion "ithu' pa_ fifty ye:us and demand that the "J'CCdl 01 "clwlrman :.iter \\ 11M minds. The fighting hencefonh "iii to : 1:I\ery ':l3 more cncmed . th I The R('vublrcan or. . nlZ:ltion in thi
representativll is Iyrann":' . men. who are to be OUl litirnllead- r. (;harle S er '\i1lJam of 11- be glorious. Row many valient 10uls .:. :;um, .anng the lm n. nd It ,,:I maller citl · elected by the eg,·o VOIk
Whenever any poilCltal r.J eN, .;hall not be pyOfesgonal tta»- GJaDapous, nu scho.al, orat., b:l\e rallied to me! Men and women, 'I H " t . "f [a:t tht. )(r. Lincoln me:llt f bec:au the 29 r r colort'I vote",
grows SO a rrogant 3nd auLocr_hc icP huoten" Ka.mble.l rd boc:.-!es::-e: ih r"'-CC : :ll1, p -tor of t· lite elt:c.:L of (.arth, even· nt :l '! : F ' r:, eOrner
), !'a\"e the. lon at any co.:t-\\hethr. wield the b.'1.tanrr Ite \er. The R -
t)) tot:1lly c"reg:lr,) the wi-he;. of bu men of cter and intelligence I Great Bethel A. M. B. Cb :lWl. 3 c:-lling in lire. in e\ery 'part of the ( . II' TYlo;.' :I' he ':1m In" I Uer tu H'ud r.rr- public:lns are afraid t; recogmze tM
forty thous:u.a (40,000) . -be they ,hite or colored I iL' voreo cancLc!ate for B op at w, lao.d, ha"e ri_en up and ass.uec! me I.l'Onard II a 11'\' I) . II m.'ant fr . lng : me or th coloml people after e!ectitn in an'
ci:tizens as the.locI Repubhc:an Mi. ,ne Independ"t.Party.,;u CODlpe! nut general .':"nf""".ce,, in $ 1 their admi. tion ,sbpport, :lnd loy 11"cr Repre,.entative:· ,Ia\e-. al lof the .la",,', or n"n .1 way except by encouraging the ,.;
il:ne has done the Clbe oI .the. Cl " .hate r .part 10 1Il power to recog- dd an.! dell'ered an ad tilat a lty. Old Ineod3 a nd new and ako- 5ith Leg. Di - Re'-. J . B. Col De,' I,e .Ia.,·e • And the ",-uch Pral'e-I cious an,! (riminaI, with gambling aJ."
izens of LouI",.,lIe when the re)&" - Dlze the indepenlent black -vote and will. long leo .emembered th W" lute stranger have flooded me with - th Leg. Dis. __ . Wil"on . 1.)\'e.: .rnanCIP:ltlO:l Proelrunatlon a .l liquor .,onceEsions. Thil arrangement
that they ha,e ""':e sat \dl e: Jlli, eloc;aent 'Olee Be la - message · that ha\e "armed my heart 56th Leg. Dis. _ W. W. WiI,on ::, e"I::,,::t d\\ whereby 29/CO color poopl eled&
recogruzed before. ThJQUih I eJ . the iJ.,dpendent movement an:.! an nered my so. Of COUl_ I 54th LeI!:. Dis .lame. H. Hath:lwa the Republica ticket and are rewan!­pared
to represent u, and fob-ted uj' dpendent Party ". colored peop, _ I " gloWUlg tnbute to. the Ieaoen. therefore, you know my plan. It ih For Sen:ltor ._."1 Willi. Colp their ann the s!3\' would be free!. eel by h:lving their criminal ela.- En
on us a white man totally unknowo WlU be the benefie», 1t er and appealed to all to stick by those to remain here in the uth, if I can 7th llagis erial Di,trict: .0 the Repu!,Fc:ln Part,· ",a. given cournged and pr ected, i :I menace
to nine-tenths of the citizens whom not wh:!t party Wlns the e)eeti We who had lbe ytslon. tbe intelligence secure a maintenance here for mj Jutice or P.::ce Willi:lm W:lrle,; the crei o f ing the . IM·e'. t. this ommuni :. Any race or body
he is suppoEeel to repreoent, simply ,,:iIl ha"e more fl'l'pec\ ",,:,d con_Id,,:,, and the courage to launch he Inde- family ,and fignt the good tight on Tb Parly Plalrorm. The •• tU:lllon that flIowed the war oi people who vote b'indIy for ncb
because he happen$ to have a -hl tion !r? both the dOIDl t paltlb pen.dent Pay, the only m'um tbru the field "here it w begun and The report of the Pi:ltform m a. handled very unwI't'ly. as we _I!e a reward wonld be ually sinister.
okin, ",;';ch is an in.ult lo every after Noember • 1921. whiCll the Negro ",:oulJ C\et amount where the victory must be. There k mittee wa,; read ' b Mr. Willi:lm It no So muc.h so that the fr.,.,.-l Mrs. Ca tieman's Re.arb.
",,1I-rting egro in the city oJ From tonight, God helping us, e to more than a too,. a rnnt and a nothing important but this I . . y rn:ln artl Ihe fermer master were pu,"
Loui.,.viIle and the "tate of Kentnck; CeaEe to be the pri\'nte property 01 sl:lv'; politically. lie informed "1 cannot close without sa),ing tha: \\::.:e;hii:L::1I7; sneral and th. :It o:lgger', points with each othr
and we propose to re-ent it in a mot any politi party but . COIltend hearers that the eye.; 0 • . nation the Associated Negro Pre.» bas don. Colored People in Part' ular: ,I""pite tbe rae they hOO to Ii e in tile
en:phatic wa, on tho day of the elee· for every nght guaranteed to us un · ;ere on Kentock)' and VUgJDla, thai a splendid piece of ne" _ dk'tflbutio.l . . ou. h to!'lther. Subsequently groat
bon by electing men of our race (' der tbe constitution_ We are intelli- the independent mo,emenl in :13- and that llr Det . eIIer b"" rendered The LIc.)ln Indepnden part I. men like Charles Summer were de-repre.
('nt U', who alone can do _0 In gent enough to kno our rigtl and Tille was the dawn of the ne )" b) !hi _ or':: a distinct ", nice to t " a ogaruZ:ltlon lookIng to the e."" . "Ioped in the Republican party-men
the . pint of justice and falr play. We have courage en("Jgb to dem d them. the spirit of the nf;W ,'egn that cOUlItry." ClpallOO of the race from pohuc:ll who tried to make the Republican ;;.:.:::.::.II-.ww-. IU.iI:I&lI:IWlIl.Ali!.!!
cea,e from now on to ow our:e'·e. Some of tM TIliJap for Whidl . the Jlli, in.p· bon ou of e .:orld r ____ _ _ sla\·ery. . . . . patyr bcome the friend of the lowl;,. 5--:::f:':':::;:::'::;.:o;=::;,;
t.) .the .CI/.t.·s pa . fo the Reubhca I lndepeodeat tDcobI Party 5&.1 as he l'OUglit agaJ autoc.-a· alonl t.) the member. ol the Inde nddlt Its onJl:ln Vi'3.' C:luei and In -pu'e-I the pr of • pised humanity.
Machine In LowSYllle r any other 1 f\bsolut uart of 0 rtUni- 'de & ml!!lo@ of Negroes of tite . pe b} the re.pectPd erro of the local But thi. nobe spmt gradually sub- """'
pelit'caI machine. r our dan.·s .I . .; - e I Y PPO Englih and F -::h and for the 1lUn- party to stick er, that thougo Republican machine to fru l!;lle e\ r sided until in the adminirtration of
,orouP oI the Log ·abin, the Repub- t, m he ':""" of life. oc:racr of the Anglo 0 cI e tile), W uld be cnUCIsed y that type eHort made b)' members of th race William Taf it b:ld entirely died.
liran party has grown bold to belle·c, 2. dJ representa on l\t \he In:: world. Be an"'G' liIe, ti6etty, eqll:ll who could see the I 1Il no mo\-: to try for elective offices The local I nder Theodore Roose,elt it flared
that . e are nothin more than poht- I rum. ,. ere the 1:1 . made tba. ja;ti;; and th.e pursuit of happines' ment that . doe" nOl meet the .appro,- Republicans throuh them lve ' plac- ur and for awhile :lppeared to burn
ieal sla\'es-to nd com:lt . f tax r property. . . ar.d '1611 hav,! nothing else, said th I or th lr. bO- ' : In dU time tbe eO in office by virtue of tile colorei again under Roose,elt·s declaration
ccmmand and' the straight eo 3. Our proporuo te mare m the speaker_ He bitterly as.•, •, iled hI: hole race tn Low.,:oe wOd ru- vote, h:!\'e absolutely refused to ar· of. "All men up and no m:ln down." .
r-ub,iCdJI tic\et reg:\rdle of whom \ ell', Iwnen 01 otJid.ll pmerment. white rep lie:ms, local and natiornl, oend e e,trrt 3Dd "ould pa} tr:uw point colored men or women to po- Then came Toft with his weak-kneecJ sement as the colored w"Omen. f
the licket i., compC':'ed. In fact it 13 4. . ' intimidation cr dun in til was vigorous m his criticism of i- twr. nSlon and coura e_ You sitions of truEt or honor or e,en t ;"oposition th31 he woulrl :lppoin n lae the colored poopl . h.'e h
not our bUloiJ.e s 0 in'luUe or look full eo e ' oC QUI sulra e ri hI dent Rardig and denounc.e d ,ciciouly ' arc settmg . t.h e .Jl:.'c e for tbe rae ordinarily conspicuous plac: excep' colored man to office when white Jl("- colored I clo, Iy a; OClated W'L.
for the name' or he .andida but 5. We O . e absolute allegiance tbe "Cn Tom" . -""ro tb .la, thughout Amen and w . York, ose mnial !n character and not $a- I'll' object. That marked the d th of 'lur family Me. for ea,., We
SImply to look for the Log Cab", a d J::either of the ' 'Rant political ,-at- or the D of a s!3ve type, the _- e;rro Chicago, lndWl:lpoi1s e'e plare ,,,fied 'nth this have opp. . .l by fa.r the onginal Republ iC:ln party. , ,ne COOk. I rt) -fi"e ) 31'5 G od re
tamp under that and ask no qu'- tit'S. that . 0 . vote. Repubilcan tie et iC 1 h:l\' .eeD on m) ng .tour thy means and foul all effON made U/ u' ':Iy ambitious F'r:UJk Hitcheoc.1c, er ul. ADd 1 cIon't. bev '"
tions. This con tion bas placed U' 6. We beLe.-e i inci n had a ellow dog on it, the -egro are dl "" Injr 0 and flngmg pfBJ - the Race to elect our own people tv chairman of the National RepubJic.n bod: iml-, the colo man d _
in er; un . te attitude, to th nden otin that he 11) that alF.lf. re:ldy to turn traitor - untO ·o tand up men, ani office e n to repreent u in districts Committee. to break the solid to''': uthe,!,er, and that u ually """'"
extent, 'e are • .med by the Repub- tim:ltel\' .,,!;, his 'IIi":: enrn- h his fIIle at the requHt of "bos.," worn _of lDdep('ndce and self re- almot whotly colored. I at the f'q)l'ne of ('. 'l!'fo be,,". '0 Democrat.
l;can part)' and l;utted by the Den:o-. -. I Geo"", ,pect. ); ou are bUlldmg a monument 'ow this i vel': im"onant. Xo· Tem:lte tbe whole party until it b:ld 1 hold that th Democrats 1'e3I-uatic
party " mllly beeau e ha.-e p,ete emption. '1 Be 'Bid the Negro leader of tile p""".ing a call that e:""- for the thing would go farther toward Tai - no more 1»e for the j!TO than to 1:- the be:,t fri d of t colored
bli , dlf opposed the DemOCI1Ltic party 7. We can be nel bousht nor " I making of 3 race, a SPlMt that: per- in our people in the respect of other get his vo. Al er eight Ye:lrs 01 pie, ardlt 100 "ery much a th
at e"ery point. '""'Y name ftDem_ bluffed. Rub Stamp type should have mea5 the souls of unborn c:hildre,l \ groups of tho population, nothin;t Woodrow W\1.-:on, the election of War- , eolored peopl of the better ir
ou.t has or UJIC01l'clous- Dr_ o.an 0__ II;'" pub. been ead fifty yean ago. Dr. WiI- and grandchildren of your race." Dr. would go further toward disvellin reo G. Han!ing, as Republican Pre - this city are beginn:n to tralize the
51 falls into with the av- 'lhe nting of the platform lia grew eloquent as he appe \Vill iaml took his seat amid pro racial animosities, doubts and us- t Continued on Page 5) J truth of thi·.